GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

SESSION LAW 2012-57

HOUSE BILL 14

AN ACT authorizing the director of the budget to use repairs and renovations funds to ensure adequate funding in the state medicaid program for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.(a)  In order to ensure that there is adequate funding in the Medicaid budget for the 2011-2012 fiscal year, the General Assembly directs the Director of the Budget, in conjunction with the State Controller and other necessary State officials, to effectuate the following extraordinary budget adjustment.  To the extent necessary for this purpose, up to ninety-four million dollars ($94,000,000) in funds appropriated to the Repairs and Renovations Reserve Account for the 2011-2012 fiscal year and allocated to State agencies and The University of North Carolina shall be transferred to the State Controller, deposited in the appropriate budget code as determined by the State Controller, and used to ensure payment to Medicaid providers for the remainder of the 2011-2012 fiscal year.

SECTION 1.(b)  Subsection (a) of this section applies only to funds required to cover the costs of paying Medicaid providers during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. Transfers under this section shall be limited to the amounts actually required to pay providers through the end of the 2011-2012 fiscal year. To the extent that the full amount of any of the funds transferred is not required to pay providers through the end of the 2011-2012 fiscal year, (i) the authority to transfer funds shall immediately lapse with respect to the unneeded portions and unneeded adjustments; and (ii) any excess funds transferred shall be transferred back to the Repairs and Renovations Reserve Account for reallocation to State agencies.

SECTION 1.(c)  On or before October 1, 2012, the Office of State Budget and Management and the Department of Health and Human Services shall report on the measures taken pursuant to this section to the Appropriations/Base Budget Committee of the Senate, the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives, and the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21^st day of June, 2012.

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/  Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         Governor

Approved 9:33 a.m. this 25^th day of June, 2012